Brian De Palma

...for directors who were also engineering breakthroughs, notably Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Rafelson, Robert Altman, Brian DePalma and Martin Scorsese. Academy Award nominations never did catch up with Kovacs, whose early...

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...was very surprised to hear that his films had thrilled a younger audience and given fuel to the imagination of myself and Brian De Palma and Francis Coppola, Scorsese once recalled. He went home that night and recorded in his diary that...

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Michael Caine Michael Caine had not yet won an Oscar when he (SPOILER ALERT) played a cross-dressing killer in Brian De Palma's 1980 thriller "Dressed to Kill." But he had already received two nominations and it would only be four...

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...working in the early 1970s and became known as the "kids with beards" (Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg were among them), Brian De Palma's name is possibly the least familiar to the casual movie buff. Yet De Palma's work arouses some of...

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...movies. He helpfully ticks off some of the titles, including "Blow Out'' and "Obsession'' for Brian De Palma, and "Cliffhanger,'' in which he adopted a British accent and a chilling demeanor. Lithgow's last TV series was the short-lived...

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...his share of bad guys in movies. The actor helpfully ticks off some of the titles, including "Blow Out" and "Obsession" for Brian De Palma, and "Cliffhanger," in which Lithgow adopted a British accent and particularly chilling demeanor.

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...that I've done. Once again, working with amazing, amazing talent all across the board. Al Pacino, of course, Sean Penn, Brian De Palma, a great script by David Koepp. That movie's just got great style. Again, it's a period movie, the '70s,...

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...John Carpenter-directed Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street (also the subject of a dreaded remake due next year), and Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie. Zombie Verite: If the living dead have to make an appearance...

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...down. His crisp, clear heroic lines are made for superhero comics. His action scenes are as inventive as any dreamt up by Brian de Palma or Steven Spielberg and he rivals Martin Scorsese in capturing the detail and character of New York.

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...and shock. Stay up till 1:30 a.m. and then switch over to TVO for the second half of the ultimate monster musical double bill, Brian DePalma's Phantom of the Paradise. On the other hand, if you've entirely given up on the idea of getting...

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